(AFP)- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday rejected calls for Turkey to arm the main Kurdish party in Syria, describing the group as a terrorist organisation. Erdogan said the Democratic Union Party (PYD) was the same as the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which...

Reporting by Mohamed AL Hussein; Translation by Yusra Ahmed AL HASAKAH (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 830 Syrian displaced families in al-Hasakah province north Syria are expected to face harsh Winter as floods uprooted their...

The UN Special Representative for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, is set to arrive in Iran on Sunday to discuss the ongoing conflict in Syria with the country’s senior officials, Iranian officials have said. He is scheduled to meet Iranian President Hassan Rouhani,...

Kurdish forces in the Syrian town of Kobane repulsed a new attempt by Islamic State fighters to cut off the border with Turkey Saturday as troops battled the jihadists in neighbouring Iraq. A Kurdish official reported five new US-led strikes around Kobane overnight as the...